Daphne

An iron fullrigged ship built in 1869 by J. Reid & Co., Port Glasgow. Dimensions 204'0"×34'0"×21'7" and tonnage 987 GRT, 925 NRT and 899 tons under deck.

1869 June: Launched at the shipyard of J. Reid & Co., Port Glasgow, for McDiarmid, Liverpool. Assigned the official British Reg. No. 63180 and signal JFRP.
1882: Re-rigged as a barque.
1884: Captain J. Morris.
1880s: Owned by Greenshields, Cowie & Co., Liverpool.
1889 December 9: Sold to Hans Nicolaus Alexander Meyers, Hamburg, and was renamed Mathilde Deussen. Assigned the German signal RHSQ. The German measurements were 62,04×10,08×6,62 meters and 990 GRT. [Lille has 1887]
1896 October 26: Sold to Mentz, Decker & Co., Hamburg.
1897 January 8: Wrecked in Norway on voyage from Hamburg to Fredrikstad and was condemned.
1898: Sold to J. Aalborg, Kragerö, and was repaired. Renamed Daphne.
1909: Sold to F. Jacobsen, Frederikstad.
1912: Renamed Else.
1924: Sold to Hugo Lundqvist, Mariehamn. Captain M. Öfverström. The Finnish measurements were 202'8"×34'0"×21'6".
1926 June 1: Wrecked near the Cape Skag in the Gulf of Bothnia on voyage from Mariehamn to Piteå, Sweden.

References:

Square-rigged ships, general references.
Lille, Sten & Grönstrand, Lars: Finlands djupvattenseglare.
Etelä-soumen kustannus oy, Lieto, 1979. 4to, 224 pp, ill.

Updated 1997-06-14 by Lars Bruzelius

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